Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
House of Augustus
Alternate Title:
Domus Augusti
Image View:
Public rooms on east side of peristyle; large hall led to this adjacent bedroom to the north, painted in the Second Style
Creator:
Augustus, Emperor of Rome (Roman (ancient) patron, 63 BCE-14 CE)
Location:
site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Location Note:
Palatine Hill; Via dei Cerchi, 81
GPS:
41.888333 12.486667
Date:
ca. 36 BCE-14 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman); Second Style
Work Type 1:
house
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Material:
stone; brick; frescoes
Technique:
construction (assembling); fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
rulers and leaders; Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Description:
After being awarded tribunica potestas for life in 23 BCE, Octavian decided to buy the house of Quintus Hortensius on the Palatine and made it his primary place of residence; it lay west of the Temple of Apollo. He expanded it after his victory at Actium. The comparative modesty of the Domus Augusti was in keeping with the return to traditional ideals promoted during the Augustan period. While the house itself is conspicuously modest, the paintings (in situ) are magnificent. The rooms are painted in a style similar to the Second Style seen in Pompeii. Those containing the most spectacular wall paintings are known by their recurring motifs: stanza delle maschere (room of the masks), the stanza dei pini (room of the pines), and the stanza delle prospettive (room of perspective). In antiquity this residence contained two levels, each leading to a garden courtyard. The bottom floor is not accessible today, but it is possible to make out the basin of a fountain and the rooms beyond it that were paved in colored marble. (Source: World Monuments Fund; https://www.wmf.org/ )
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Twelve
Identifier:
1A3-R-R-HOA-B41
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

House of Augustus